Lakier, A.B.[EAST COST OF NORTH AMERICA & CUBA] Puteshestvie po Severo-Amerikanskim Shtatam, Kanade i Ostrovu Kube [i.e. Travel across the North-American States, Canada and the Cuba Island] St. Petersburg: Typ. of K. Wolf, 1859. 2 vols. bound together. [4], iv, 374; [4], [iv], 399, vii. 21x14,5 cm. With a large folding lithographed map. Contemporary quarter leather, spine with gilt lettered title. Binding mildly rubbed on extremities, otherwise a very good copy. First and only edition. Very rare Russian imprint with only six paper copies found in Worldcat. One of the first Russian books on North America, it describes the travels of a Russian lawyer, statesman and historian Alexander Lakier (1824-1870) to the major cities on the East Coast of the United States, Eastern Canada, and Cuba in autumn-winter 1857. Lakier visited and gave detailed description of Boston, New York, Hudson River, US Military Academy in West Point, Montreal, Quebec City, Bytown or Ottawa, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington DC, Chicago, and many others, went down the Ohio and Mississippi River to New Orleans, and thence by steamer to Cuba. The main question he wanted to answer in his book is: Â«How did this younger brother in the family of mankind manage to leave his elder brothers so far behind in trade, navigation, and production activity in general? Why already now the North-American States are in many aspects the example for Europe, when it has been only half a century after the beginning of its existence? Where is the core of the democratic equality which is absolutely incomprehensible for a European? What benefit, what edification can we extract from this great experience, presented by this country, the relations with which although hasn't started due to distance, but in time, as can be predicted, will take humongous scale across the Pacific Ocean?Â» (vol. 1, p. 2). Lakier leaves interesting notes on peculiarities of Christian churches in America, municipal administration, political and election systems, prisons, native people of Canada and the United States, slavery, passion of the Americans for money and wealth, and many others. His conclusion about the Americans is that Â«The people [of America] - young, active, practical, successful in their undertakings&hellip; will influence Europe, but use for that not weapon, not sword and fire, not death and ruins, but will spread their influence by the power of inventions, trade, industries; and this influence is stronger than that of every conquestÂ» (vol. 2, p. 399). The book is supplemented with a large well executed map of the eastern coast of Canada and the United States illustrating the author's travels and displaying the railway network in the region. Lakier served as an associate in the Russian Ministry of Justice (since 1845) and later in the Ministry of Internal Affairs (since 1858). He is considered the first historian of the Russian heraldry and seals; his major work Russian Heraldry (SPb., 1855) received the Demidov award of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The trip to North America, was part of a larger voyage in 1856-1858, which also included Europe, Northern Africa and Palestine. Several short essays describing Lakier's impressions of European and American cities were published in Saint Petersburg newspapers and magazines (Sovremennik, SPb. Vedomosti, Otechestvennye Zapiski, and others), but it was only the account of the travels across North America that was published separately.

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870), [COLLINS, Wilkie (1824-1889)] All The Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Conducted by Charles Dickens. With which is incorporated Household Words. Includes the very first appearance of Dickens's 'A Tale of Two Cities' and Wilkie Collins's 'The Woman in White'. London: 1859-1866.. 16 volumes. Continuous from number 1 to 400. Contemporary binding of plum full morocco, extra gilt, with marbled edges and endpapers. Internally clean, very light wear to covers, one or two spine a touch sunned. A superb, very decorative set of this important periodical publication, edited by Dickens, in effect the continuation to Household Words. Charles Dickens owned All The Year Round with W.H. Wills. He remained its editor until his death in 1870. His son, Charles Dickens Jr., inherited his father's 75 per-cent stake in the business and, in January 1871, bought out Wills's 25 per-cent share, following the latter's understandable objection to Charley's decision to award himself both the editor's and sub-editor's salary. The journal continued under Charles Dickens Jr.'s editorship until 1888, and finally ceased publication in 1893. (Drew 12).

S [Sigma pseud]Photograms Of An Eastern Tour: Being Journal Letters Of Last Year, Written Home From Germany, Dalmatia, Corfu, Greece, Palestine, Desert Of Shur, Egypt, The Mediterranean, &c John Farquhar Shaw, London, 1859. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. THERE IS NO AUTHOR GIVEN JUST AN S APPEARS IN THE TITLE AREA AS A GREEK CHARACTER. 'The dedication of this volume tells nearly all that is to be told. The entertainment that his letters seemed to afford at home-as reported from time to time to the writer-led him to think, for the first time when approaching the Coast of Palestine, that they might possibly afford amusement and information to others. This made him ask that they might be preserved and copied against his return, and induced him to endeavour to journalize more carefully for the future. From those letters, mutatis mutandis, amplified occasionally from a private journal and notes, this volume is composed. His object having been to bring every interesting scene he witnessed, and any interesting remarks he heard, clearly before his friends at home (who led him to think he had in some measure succeeded), suggested the title of " Photograms of an Eastern Tour." He has only to add, that he has sought by strict accuracy to make his matter worthy of that title, and that he believes much information of practical utility will be found in the contents-which he, at least, could not discover in other books, especially regarding the Desert of Shur-hitherto little noticed, and now of much importance. In conclusion, he has to state that he trusts he has written throughout in the spirit of a Protestant Christian, humbly desirous to aid the cause of true religion, and to the support of which any profit from the sale of this work will be devoted'. Book - in Good red boards with blind stamped decoration, gilt lettering and small gilt illustration to the front board - some grubbiness to the boards, sunning to the spine but the gilt is still quite bright, some bumping and wearing to the extreme corners and bumping to the extreme edges of the spine. Contents, slight marking to the yellow endpapers, slight marking to the occasional page, previous owner's name to the top edge of the front pastedown otherwise clean, bright and tightly bound - Publisher's catalogue to rear complete but incorrectly bound, numbered 5,6,7,8,1,2,3,4,13,14,15,16,9,10,11,12. Scarce, especially in such good condition and original binding. Size: 7 inches tall by 4.25 inches. xii, 340 pages & an Errata page & 16 page catalogue to rear. Full page frontispiece & 10 further illustrations all full page but one. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 201-750 grams. Category: Travel & Places; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9026..

Alpine Club, Members of; Ball, John; Kennedy, Edward Shirley (eds.)Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. A series of excursions by members of the Alpine club.; First - Second - Third Series First editions London: Longman, 1859. Four volumes. Original cloth, gilt. Small tear at the head of the spine of the first series, its covers somewhat darkened, but a very good copy; Both volumes of the 1862 second series have old ink shelf numbers on the spine, and bumped corners, but also are in very good, bright condition Ball edited the first series, Kennedy the second. A fine copy of the 1932 Third Series is also included. Four volumes. Neate 18-20-22.

COLWELL, Stephen The Ways and Means of Payment: Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.,, 1859. A full analysis of the credit system, with its various modes of adjustment. Octavo (230 Ã— 142 mm). Original horizontally-ribbed grey cloth, neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, new cream endpapers, covers decoratively panel-stamped with foliate cornerpieces in blind. Inked shelfmark to spine, library label to front pastedown, accession stamp with inked manuscript correction to p. iii, Brandeis University ink-stamp to margin of p. 15 not affecting text. Corners and board-edges rubbed, internally crisp and fresh, an excellent copy. First edition. "Colwell's arguments ran counter to the teachings of the classical economists ? In this work he supported a private national bank, inconvertible paper money, the real-bills doctrine, the demonetization of gold, and a national clearing system, all amidst an economy of high prices ? He wrote the book from a point of view that considered money the handmaiden of commerce" (The New Palgrave I, p. 491).

[NORIE, John William, & J. S. Hobbs.]Sailing Directions for the Mediterranean Sea. London: James Imray and Son,, 1859; 1852; 1858. Compiled from the most recent surveys made by order of the British, French, and Spanish Governements. Part I. The Mediterranean West of Cape Spartivento, Italy; [Part II. The Eatern portion of the Mediterranean Sea. The Adriatic or Gulf of Venice, the Albanian and Grecian coasts, the Grecian Archipelago, and the coasts of Syria and Egypt; Part III. The Euxine, or Black Sea, and the Seas of Marmora and Azov; including also the navigation of the Dardanelles and Bosphorus. Three parts bound in one volume, octavo (206 x 134 mm). Contemporary dark blue quarter morocco, titles to spine gilt, flat bands, compartments panelled in blind, double and single gilt rules to spine tips, marbled boards, edges speckled blue, patterned endpapers. Extremities a little worn, tail of spine lightly scuffed, endleaves slightly foxed. A very good copy. Early editions of Norie's pilots covering the West Mediterranean through to the Black Sea. John William Norrie (1772?1843) was a chart maker and hydrographer who published a large number of sailing directions, the majority of which were written by himself. His shop on Leadenhall Street in London, with its trade sign of a carved wooden midshipman, was immortalised by Charles Dickens in Dombey and Son. "Norie's charts and books, particularly the Tables and Epitome, made his name well known among seamen for nearly two centuries, a success due to his teaching ability, prolific output, and commercial shrewdness" (ODNB).

Ellis, Havelock.Studies in the Psychology of Sex. Volume I: The Evolution of Modesty, The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity Auto-Erotism - Volume II: Sexual Inversion - Volume III: Analysis of the Sexual Impulse/ Love and Pain / The Sexual Impulse in Women - Volume IV: Sexual Selection in Man [Touch/Smell/Hearing/Vision] - Volume V: Erotic Symbolism / The Mechanism of Detumescence / The Psychic State in Pregnancy - Volume VI: Sex in Relation to Society - Volume VII: Eonism and Other Supplementary Studies. Third Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 22cm x 14.5cm. xv, 352 (4), xi, 391, xii, 351, xi, 270, x, 285, xvi, 656, vii, 539 (7) pages. Original Hardcover (brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine). Seven Volumes (complete with very rare supplementary volume). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ex-libris labels on pastedowns. The only complete set on the international market.
Henry Havelock Ellis, known as Havelock Ellis (2 February 1859 8 July 1939), was a British physician, writer, and social reformer who studied human sexuality. He was co-author of the first medical textbook in English on homosexuality in 1897, and also published works on a variety of sexual practices and inclinations, including transgender psychology. He is credited with introducing the notions of narcissism and autoeroticism, later adopted by psychoanalysis. He served as president of the Galton Institute and, like many intellectuals of his era, supported eugenics. (Wikipedia) The seven volumes include for example the following chapters: Volume I: Modesty an Agglomeration of Fears/ Children in Relation to Modesty/ The Phenoma of Sexual Periodicity/ The Phenomena of Blushing/ The Question of a Monthly Sexual Cycle in Men/ Insanity, Heart Disease/ The Annual Sexual Rhythm/ Tendency of the Sexual Impulse to Become Heightened in Spring and Autumn/ The Easter and Midsummer Bonfires/ The Growth of Children According to Season/ The Annual Curve of Bread Consumptions in Prisons/ Scarlet Fever/ Auto-Erotism/ The Japanese rin-no-tama and other Special Instruments for Obtaining Auto-Erotic Graification/ Abuse of the Ordinary Implements and Objects of Daily Life/ The Frequency of Hairpin the Bladder/ The Influence of Horse Exercise and Railway Travelling/ Sexual Excitement During Sleep/ Erotic Dreams/ Hysteria and the Question of its Relation to the Sexual Emotions/ The Early Greek Theories of Its Nature and Causation/ Charcot/ Breuer and Freud/ Neurasthenia/ Masturbation/ Mohammedan Attitude/ The Immense Part in Life Played by Transmuted Auto-Erotic Phenomena. Volume II: Homosexuality Among Animals/ The Albanians/ The Greeks/ The Eskimos/ The Tribes of the Northwest United States/ Sexual Inversion at Rome/ Homosexuality in Prisons/ Michelangelo/ Winkelmann/ Muret/ Walt Whitman/ Verlaine/ Burton's Climatic Theory of Homosexuality/ The Racial Factor/ Wesphal/ Hossli/ Casper/ Ulrichs/ Krafft-Ebing/ Moll/ Fere/ Kiernan/ Lydston/ Raffalovich/ Edward Carpenter/ Hirschfeld/ Sexual Inversion in Men and Women/ The Theory and Nature of Sexual Inversion/ The Freudian Theory/ The Influence of School/ The Code Napoleon/ Germany/ England/ THe Attitude of Society etc. Volume III: The Sexual Impulse a Factor of Instint/ The Sexual Impulse in Castrated Animals and Men/ Analogy Between the Sexual Relationship and that of the Suckling Mother and Her Child/ Sexual Selection a Part of Natural Selection/ The Fundamental Importance of Tumescence/ The Primitive Significance of Dancing in Animals and Man/ The Object of Courtship is to Produce Sexual Tumescence/ Analogy Between Coitus and Epilepsy/ Analogy of the Sexual Impulse to Hunger/ The Chief Key to the Relationship Between Love and Pain to be found in Animal Courtship/ Human Play in the Light of Animal Courtship/ The Frequency of Crimes Against the Person in Adolescence/ Marriage by Capture and its Psychological Basis/ Man's Pleasure in Exerting Force/ Sadism/ De Sade/ No Real Line of Demarcation Between Sadism and Masochism/ The Impulse to Strangle the Object of Sexual Desire/ The Wish to be Strangled/ Pain/ Anger and Fear the Most Powerful Emotions/ Their Biological Significance in Courtships/ The Physiological Mechanism of Fatigue Renders Pain Pleasurable/ The Primitive View of Women as a Supernatural Element in Life/ Embodying the Sexual Instinct/ Sexual Anaesthesia/ Special Characters of the Sexual Impulse in Women etc. Volume IV: The Primitive Character of the Skin/ Tickleishness/ The Secondary Sexual Skin Centres/ The Kiss/ The Bath/ Antagonism of Primitive Christianity to the Cult of the Skin/ Its Cult of Personal Filth/ The Primitiveness of Smell/ Rise of the Study of Olfaction/ Zwaardmaker/ Cloquet/ Smell as the Sense of Imagination/ Vasomotor and Muscular Effects/ Odorous Substances as Drugs/ The Specific Body Odors of Various Peoples/ The Ability to Distinguish Individuals by Smell/ The Sense of Smell in Neurasthenic and Allied States/ Olfactory Fetichism/ The Influence of Perfumes/ Their Aboriginal Relationship to Sexual Body Odors/ Fragrance of Flowers/ Synthetic Manufacture of Perfumes/ Musk/ Peau d'Espagne/ Smell of Leather and its Occasional Sexual Effects/ The Identity of many Plant Odors with Certain Body Odors/ The Evil Effects of Excessive Olfactory Stimulation/ The Symptoms of Vanillism/ Occasional Dangerous Results of the Odors of Flowers/ Effects of Flowers on the Voice/ The Place of Smell in Human Sexual Selections/ The Physiological Basis of Rhythm/ The Physiological Influence of Music on Muscular Action, Circulation, Respiration etc./ The Place of Music in Sexual Selection Among the Lower Animals/ The Larynx and Voice in Man/ Ancient Beliefs Concerning the Influence of Music in Morals, Education and Medicine/ Its Therapeutic Uses/ Significance of the Romantic Interest in Music in Puberty/ Primacy of Vision in Man/ Beauty as a Sexual Allurement/ The Objective Element in Beauty/ Ideals of Feminine Beauty in Various Parts of the World/ Savage Women Sometimes Beautiful from European Point of View/ Mutilation/ Steatopygia/ Obesity/ Gait/ The Pregnant Woman/ The Ideals of the Renaissance/ The Hair/ The Beard/ Beauty of Blondes and Brunettes/ The Love of the Exotic/ Movement/ The Mirror/ Narcissism/ Pygmalionism/ The Alleged Charm of Disparity in Sexual Attraction/ The Admiration for High Stature/ The Admiration for Dark Pigmentation/ The Charm of Parity/ Conjugal Mating/ The Origins of the Kiss etc. Volume V: Foot-Fetichism and Shoe-Fetichism/ Restif de la Bretonne/ The Chinese, Greeks, Spaniards, Romans, etc./ The Influence of Early Association and Emotional Shock/ The Tendency to Idealize the Defects of a Beloved Person/ Stendhal's 'Crystallisation'/ Erotic Fetichism/ Wide Extension of the Symbols of Sex/ The Fascination of Physical Constraint/ The Dynamic Element in Erotic Symbolism/ The Symbolism of Garments/ Scatalogic Symbolism/ Urolagnia/ Coprlagnia/ The Ascetic Attitude Toward the Flesh/ Scatalogy in Folk-Lore/ The Obscene as Derived from the Mythological/ The Scatalogy of Saints/ Influence of Nates Fetichism as a Transition to Coprolagnia/ Animals as Sources of Erotic Symbolism/ Mixoscopic Zoophilia/ Bestiality/ The Goat/ Exhibitionism/ A Symbolic Perversion of Courtship/ The Psychological Significance of Detumescence/ The Influence of Exercise/ Erogenous Zones/ Is There an Erotic Temperament?/ Characteristics of the Castrated/ Pigmentation/ Everted Lips/ Bright Eyes/ Shortness of Stature/ Profuse Hair/ The Relationship of Maternal and Sexual Emotion/ Conception and the Loss of Virginity/ Changes in the Nervous System/ Effects of Pregnancy etc. Volume VI: The Mother and Her Child/ The Child's Right to Choose its Ancestry/ Infant Mortality/ The Need of Rest During Pregnancy/ The Economic Question/ The Duty of the State/ Question of Coitus During Pregnancy/ Nurture Necessary as Well as Breed/ Precocious Manifestations of the Sexual Impulse/ Children's Ideas Concerning the Origin of Babies/ The Mother the Natural and Best Teacher/ Books on Sexual Enlightenment/ Value of Botany/ Menstruation/ Sexual Education/ The Valuation of Sexual Love/ The Attitude of Mediaeval Asceticism/ St. Bernard/ The Mystery of Sexual Desire/ Chastity Essential to the Dignity of Love/ The Eighteenth Century Revolt Against the Ideals of Chastity/ Unnatural Forms of Chastity/ Chastity Among the Early Christians/ The Penitentials/ Influence of the Renaissance and the Reformation/ The Revolt Against Virginity as a Virtue/ Potency and Impotence in Popular Estimation/ The Influence of Tradition on Sexual Abstinence/ The Physician As Reformer/ Alcohol/ The Influence of Physical and Mental Exercise/ The Inadequacy of Sexual Hygiene in this Field/ The Orgy/ Prostitution/ The Causes of Prostitution/ India, China, Japan/ Rome/ The Appeal of Civilization Attracts Women to Prostitution/ The Influence of Urban Life/ The Decay of the Brothel/ The Need of Reforming Marriage/ The Significance of Venereal Diseases/ The History of Syphilis/ The Social Dangers of Gonorrhoea/ The Innocent Victims of Venereal Diseases/ Prostitution in Relation to our Marriage System/ The Definition of the Term 'Morality'/ Ethics/ Manifestations of Sexual Morality/ The Theory of the Matriarchate/ Women in Babylonia/ Egypt/ The Ambiguous Influence of Christiantiy/ The Increase of Women Who Work/ The Sexual Responsibility of Women and its Consequences/ The Alleged Moral Inferiority of Women/ Marriage/ Among Animals/ Canon Law/ Contract/ False Ideas of Individualism/ With the Birth of a Child Marriage Ceases to be a Private Concern/ The Firm Basis of Monogamy/ The Art of Love/ Sexual Initiation in Africa and Elsewhere/ Flirtation/ Sexual Ignorance in Women/ The Husband's Education for Marriage/ Variation in Sexual Capacity/ The Lover Compared to the Musician/ The Proposal as a Part of Courtship/ Divination in the Art of Love/ The Unskilful Husband Frequently the Cause of the Frigid Wife/ Coitus Interruptus/ Jealousy/ Risks of Absence/ Primitive Function of Jealousy/ Platonic Friendship/ The Maternal Element in Women's Love/ The Problem of Love One of the Greatest of Social Questions/ The Science of Procreation etc. Volume VII: Eonism/ The Doctrine of Erogenic Zones/ The History of Florrie and the Mechanism of Social Deviation/ The Menstrual Curve of Sexual Impulse/ The Synthesis of Dreams: A Study of a Series of One Hundred Dreams/ The Conception of Narcissism/ Undinism/ Kleptolagnia/ The History of Marriage etc.

KNIPE, I.A. [James Alexander]Geological Map of the British Isles and Part of France. Showing also the Inland Navigation by Means of Rivers and Canals, Railways and Principal Roads, and Sites of the Minerals.. London: Published for the Proprietor by Stanford... & by Grant & Griffith... (Late Harris) also at Edinburgh by W. & A.K. Johnston, 1859. A fine folding geological map of the country with bright original handcolouring illustrating the geological strata, an inset map of the Shetland and Orkney Islands to the upper right of the north east sheet plus 9 sections from around the country beneath also coloured, the map printed over four parts, each measuring c. 76 x 65.5 cm, i.e. 152 x 131 cm if joined, each part dissected into 24 sections and mounted on linen, marbled paper to each of the folded end sections with miniature outline maps to one side of each part, publisher's green morocco slipcase, gilt ruled and lettered to the spine, the gilt arms of Prince Albert (to whom the map is dedicated) to the upper board. The foldover flap of the slipcase wanting, some scuffing to the extremities, a little offsetting to the map, a very good example overall. A revised issue of the second edition of Knipe's magnificent geological map of the British Isles, the first issue of the first edition having been published in 1843 with the first issue of the second edition appearing in 1851. As with Knipe's previous notable geological map, that of England & Wales published from 1835 onwards, the map was reissued at intervals and updated with fresh data collected from fieldwork. This edition has a printed list of "authorities consulted" that provides an illustrious roll call of Knipe's forerunners and contemporaries in the science: Smith, Greenough, Lyell, Mantell and Murchison to name but a few. This issue has an addenda to that list highlighting the sources of the data added to the map in the period between 1851 and the date of publication.

[Ward, Mary; Mahon, Jane]Entomology in Sport, and Entomology in Earnest; by The Honorable Mrs W[ard] & Lady M[ahon] London: Paul Jerrard, [1859]. [2], 68, hand-col frontis, additional decorative title + 35 hand-col text figs. . HB. Attractive hand-coloured lithographed frontis, title and dedication, together with 35 hand-coloured vignettes in the text, 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed to extremities; intricate gilt design to front cover, blind stamped to rear, aeg; recased, new endpapers; housed in a recent purpose-made, cloth-covered slip-case. Margins lightly thumbed in places. Vg. From the library of Paul Sokoloff (1948-2012) with his book-plate to endpaper.. Rare. Charming whimsical book, 'intended, not so much for the scientific, as for the young or the comparatively uninstructed reader. The authors have therefore aimed at making them entertaining, rather than complete or systematic; an agreeable bait, in short, by means of which unwary youth may find themselves caught in the meshes of science, while seeking only for amusement.' - Preface.Freeman 3881.Mary Ward [pseud. the Hon. Mrs Ward] (1827-1869) was a microscopist and author, an important 19th century popularizer of science who did much to encourage an interest in the natural world and to stimulate the advances in science and technology that marked the industrial revolution. The present book was written in collaboration with her sister, Lady Jane Mahon. (ODNB).

SCHILLER, Friedrich von)Friedrich von Schiller's Bibliothek. Mit einem Facsimile aus seinem eigenhändigen Bücherverzeichnisse. Zum 10. November 1859 - One large folding facsimile plate. 16 pp. Small 8vo, orig. printed wrappers, stitched as issued and bound in modern wrappers. Berlin, J.A. Stargardt, 1859. One of a very few surviving copies of this bookseller's catalogue of a significant portion of the library of Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805), the German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. In 1851, the bookseller and auctioneer Stargardt acquired this part of Schiller's library from his son Karl. It proved difficult to sell, and in 1859 he produced the present catalogue, selling the collection in 1860 to the Hamburg bookseller I.S. Meyer. Meyer also had difficulties selling the collection, and in 1862 he held a lottery, which was won by a merchant named Helmcke, who received the 156 books and the manuscript list as his prize. Helmcke gave the collection to the Hamburger Stadtbibliothek in 1867, where it was absorbed into the general collections and the duplicates dispersed. In 1905 the remaining 114 volumes were reassembled and shelved separately. The engraved folding plate is a facsimile of a manuscript list of the books in Schiller's hand. Fine copy preserved in a green morocco slipcase. ? Roland Folter, Deutsche Dichter- und Germanistenbibliotheken, 664. [Attributes: Soft Cover]

ERMATINGER, EdwardLife of Colonel Talbot, and the TalbotSettlement, Its Rise and Progress, with Sketches of the PublicCharacters, and career of some of the Most Conspicuous Men inUpper Canada, who were either friends or acquaintances of thesubject of these memoirs. St. Thomas. Printed at A. McLachlin'sHouse Journal Office. 1859. - 12mo, 17cm, The first edition,iv,[v-vi], (contents),230p., wanting the errata slip, (supplied ona typed note and loosely inserted), in the original diamond grainblind decorated light brown cloth, gilt title on the upper cover,glazed yellow endpapers, a fine bright copy. (cgc) Sir GeorgeSimpson's copy with his faint but clear signature on the free fly. . T.P.L. 3358. Morgan p116. Watters p496. The author was a fur-trader', businessman, politician, and writer who spent tenyears in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company before settling inSt. Thomas. He made a successful career as a banker and founded theSt. Thomas Standard. Although he had disliked his early life in thefur trade, he defended the Hudson's Bay Company in his book TheHudson's Bay Territories (1858). [Attributes: First Edition; Hard Cover]

[Slave Trade].Class B. Correspondence with British Ministers and Agents in Foreign Countries, and with Foreign Ministers in England, relating to the Slave Trade. From April 1, 1859, to March 31, 1860. London, Harrison & Sons, 1860. 1859. Folio. XVI, 268 pp. Modern blue wrappers with cover label. British papers and correspondence with local agents on the international slave trade, including missives exchanged between Mr. Doria, Mr. C. Wood, and Sir G. Clerk on the continued importation of slaves by the Sheikh of Bandar Lengeh, discussing steps of "signal reprehension" (p. 85) against such conduct, and further intelligence forwarded by Captain Jones from Bushire relative to the trade of slaves throughout the Arabian Gulf. - Well-preserved.

Ward, Mary; Mahon, Jane]Entomology in Sport, and Entomology in Earnest; by The Honorable Mrs W[ard] & Lady M[ahon] Paul Jerrard [1859], London - [2], 68, hand-col frontis, additional decorative title + 35 hand-col text figs. . HB. Attractive hand-coloured lithographed frontis, title and dedication, together with 35 hand-coloured vignettes in the text, 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, a little rubbed to extremities; intricate gilt design to front cover, blind stamped to rear, aeg; recased, new endpapers; housed in a recent purpose-made, cloth-covered slip-case. Margins lightly thumbed in places. Vg. From the library of Paul Sokoloff (1948-2012) with his book-plate to endpaper. Rare. Charming whimsical book, 'intended, not so much for the scientific, as for the young or the comparatively uninstructed reader. The authors have therefore aimed at making them entertaining, rather than complete or systematic; an agreeable bait, in short, by means of which unwary youth may find themselves caught in the meshes of science, while seeking only for amusement.' - Preface.Freeman 3881. [Attributes: Hard Cover]

Regnault, AmableAphorismes Administratifs. Paris, 1859, Only Edition. 1859. A Rare Collection of French Legal and Political Aphorisms Regnault, Amable [1798-1897]. Aphorismes Administratifs. Paris: Cosse et Marchal, Imprimeurs-Editeurs, 1859. [iv], II, 206 pp. 12mo. (6-3/4" x 4-1/4"). Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt title and fillets to spine, speckled edges, marbled endpapers. Some rubbing to extremities with minor wear to spine ends and corners, light fading to spine, partial crack to text block between front free endpaper and following endleaf. Light toning to text, light foxing in a few places. A handsome copy. * Only edition. Organized by topic, this is a collection of aphorisms on, for the most part, administrative law and political science. Each entry is accompanied by a Latin translation on a facing page. Regnault was an archivist, translator, historian and bibliographer. OCLC locates 4 copies, 1 in North America (U.S. Supreme Court). Another copy located at the Library of Congress.